From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 4 13:55:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA03765 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:55:20 -0800 Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA03625 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:54:50 -0800 Received: from trumpet.etnet.com (trumpet.etnet.com [129.45.17.35]) by etinc.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA05566; Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:04:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 17:04:27 -0500 Message-Id: <199512042204.RAA05566@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: PCI probe problems. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >On Dec 4, 15:22, dennis wrote: >} Subject: Re: PCI probe problems. >} >On Dec 4, 3:31, Carlos Antonio Ruggiero wrote: > >} Remember (back-when) Compaq was the standard? (Ha-Ha). > >Yes :( > >They meant the end of our first excursion to PC Unix (386/ix) >on a 386/20 hardware some 7 years ago ... > >A 640x400 VGA which could not be disabled, and custom memory >modules, which would have made replacing the systems one year >later by better equipped ones cheaper than buying those Compaq >piggy back cards. > >These Comapq systems were so brain damaged, that it took six >years for any PC hardware to be considered again. > >It's always interesting to watch how the main players seem to >think they are the only players, until they find nobody wants >to play with them any more :) When your big enough (Cisco ring a bell) you become the standard, no matter how bad it is. db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25